Example sentences of "[adv] not [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In deference to you , Mr. Speaker , perhaps I had better not respond to the last part of my hon. Friend 's question , but I entirely agree with the spirit of his comments . |
| 2 | So the practice itself becomes useful for two different purposes , diagnosis and collaboration , which will probably not happen on the same occasion . |
| 3 | In any case , at that moment his father 's circumstances would probably not allow for the added burden of a son 's university education . |
| 4 | Bill Clinton , writhing amid the dilemma that most of his election campaign has been an attempt to persuade the white middle class that he does most emphatically not speak for the poor or the coloured , announced , after much shilly-shallying , that ‘ We have refused to confront our differences … and for this neglect , we have all paid . ’ |
| 5 | If you want a half-hearted approach I may as well not start in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | The point that my hon. Friend is about to come to is that the advertising directed at young people creates a climate of social acceptability in which children will then not complain about the awful smell of smoke from the other side of a physical barrier — |
| 7 | If the parents do not know what has happened they should either not interfere in the upset or equally attribute blame knowing that a row can not happen without two parties being involved . |
| 8 | The parfum of ice-cream would certainly not fit into the English category . |
| 9 | A dress like that would certainly not appeal to the average feminist . |
| 10 | Notwithstanding such criticisms , Tan seems to make it abundantly clear that if any change in the law 's attitude to transsexuals is to be forthcoming , it will certainly not come from the English courts . |
| 11 | They would certainly not approve of the various purges devised by Jan . |